The Shaw Prize Award Presentation Ceremony 2015 will take place in Hong Kong on Thursday, 24 September 2015. The Honourable C Y Leung, Chief Executive of the HKSAR, People’s Republic of China has kindly consented to officiate at the ceremony.

The Shaw Laureates for 2015 had been announced earlier. Details of the Shaw Laureates are as follows:

or his conceiving and leading the Kepler Mission, which greatly advanced knowledge of both extrasolar planetary systems and stellar interiors.

The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine is awarded in equal shares toBonnie L Bassler
Squibb Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA and

E Peter Greenberg
Professor of Microbiology, University of Washington, USA

for elucidating the molecular mechanism of quorum sensing, a process whereby bacteria communicate with each other and which offers innovative ways to interfere with bacterial pathogens or to modulate the microbiome for health applications.

for their introduction and development of fundamental tools in number theory, allowing them as well as others to resolve some longstanding classical problems.

An approximate 5-minute segment will be uplinked via satellite transmission at Hong Kong time 2230-2300 (GMT 1430-1500). Photos of the ceremony will also be uploaded onto the website www.shawprize.org from Hong Kong time 2230 (GMT 1430) from 24 September 2015 onwards.